Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

I think hygiene is so important.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.